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Show Page 2 THE SIGNPOST Editors Pauline Rogers, Norma Pantone Business Manager Orville Nielson Society Editor Donna Jenkins Athletic Editors Jack Syphers, Melvin Manfull Features Norma Barrows, Dick Russell, Ted Collins, Stanley Johnson, Josephine Kunz, Everal Harris, Mary Peterson, Harold Benson Contributors Dwight Williams, Eva Rogerson, Constance Ford, Reed Alexander, Hugh Garner, Beth Cardon Circulation Chet Gilgen, Barbara Reeves Typist Verna Watts Photographer Stuart Wheelwright Publihwl itm-jt othw welf by th Anocited StucUmU of Wober CoUeC. InterinounUin Publishing Co. YOUR WAY ALONG He's the sheik of the ballroom, but the ugly duckling of the classroom. In English he lolls down in his seat and gazes out of the window. He doesn't want to listen to the teacher. If he listens, he might have to think, and he doesn't want to think. "Bluffing your way along?" you ask him. He stares at you incredulously. "Of course, I'm not bluffing along." Yet when a short story assignment is given, he gallops to the story section of Colliers or the Cosmopolitan and makes a duplicate copy. He camouflages the title, sprinkles the plot with a few trite sentences of his own, attaches his name with a flourish, and hopes that no one will ever know. "How long should this theme be?" he whines to his teacher. "Satisfy yourself," the teacher replies. Then he scrawls off a couple of paragraphs, smears them with ink, forgets how to spell, forgets how to punctuate, and hands them in. "Pretty slick, I'd call it." He pats himself on the back. He doesn't bluff either when ho dexterously manipulates his "ponies" at examination time, when he copies his sociology from a last quarter syllabus, when he flirts and flirts with luck and hopes that the teacher won't notice. "Sure pulled a good one over on the old prof today," he laughs as he gulps down his hamburger. Poor fool! The only one he is deceiving is himself and he'll wake up and find it out someday. Someday he'll find himself in a clamorous world of strong men and practical affairs. There will be stories crying to be written, buildings waiting to be built, and lucrative jobs beckoning. But he'll be trampled under while others leap up and stride ahead. For in that world there won't be any teachers to goad on the bluffers, to prod the balky horses along. Geologists to Trek To The Parks The annual geology field trip to the southern Utah parks has been definitely scheduled for Friday, May 12. If present plans materialize, there will be two bus loads of students travel to Bryce and Zion national parks. The cost of the trip will amount to approximately S9.00. The party will leave Weber college early Friday morning, May 12, and will travel to Bryce canyon, where they will stay until DOKOS 2522 Washington Blvd. BL.m mo Supports Local Athletics OUR SPORT PAGES NEWS OF Saturday morning. Sunday the party, will travel on to Zion canyon where they will study the unsurpassable scenery. The total trip will be completed in four days. The busses will return to Weber college late Monday night. If anyone is interested but has not already contacted Mr. Orlo Childs, the geology professor, he is invited to do so. Mr. Childs announces there may be an opportunity for students to go who haven't taken geology but who plan to take 1 u next year. COVER THE SPORTING THE WORLD Ike Outside Wcrl4 By HAROLD BENSON Tips To The Candidates Once again Weber college will have its annual taste of amateur politics. The field will be filled with candidates eager to be elected to office. The walls will be plastered with large colored signs espousing the election of various students. Speeches hallways will be buzzing with election promises will be made by the dozen. For three weeks the student body will be in the midst of an exciting campaign. In the final balloting those students who are the most practical politicians will be elected. In other words, those students who use "common sense" politics will get the offices. At this time I take the liberty of giving you a number of suggestions on how to win elections. The following rules have been used by every politician who ever ran for office and they are approved by such political authorities as Frank R. Kent. (1) Give the students a good show. Dramatize your ideas. The student body wants to be amused, not instructed. There is one thing they abhor and that is to be bored. Most of the students have to be reached through their emotions and not their intellects. If you dramatize yourself and your ideas in an elections, you will be hard to beat. (2) Acquire the fine art of saying something without doing so. Most of the student body is not informed on campaign issues; therefore it is futile to talk sense to them. Don't make a sensible campaign. Give the students reasons for voting against the other candidates but supply them with rear.ons for voting for you. "Give them the hokum and you have got them." (3) When your opponents throw a spoonful of mud on you, throw a bucketfull back at them. In other words, meet the charge not only with a counter charge but with a counter attack. Refuse to be put on the defensive. As soon as the charge is made, be aggressive and keep it up. It does not matter about facts. In a little while the students in such a battle will become so bewildered that all idea of the right and wrong of the original charge will be lost. (4) Give the students what stitutional. they want but make it uncon- (5) Get all the publicity you can. Publicity is the life-blood of a candidate. When they , stop writing about you, you are dead. The smart candidate will get publicity. (6) Don't "high hat" the student voters. They resent a superior and patronizing air. To dress well or "put on the dog" does not appeal to the students. They dislike a "stuffed shirt." If the cry of "silk stocking" can be raised, you are sure to be defeated. (7) "Never handle a hot poker on the front porch". In other words, the thing above all others for a candidate to avoid is to appear ridiculous. It is fine to have the student body laugh with you, but it is fatal to have them laugh at you. (8) Don't worry about the women's vote. Over 99 per cent of them will vote the way their sweathearts and brothers tell them. (9) It is supremely ridiculous NOW SHOWING A Grand Screen Treat STARTS THUKS., APR. 27TH wpiAffilf flf lote a wot smr. 'The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" with DON AM E CUE 7W OaiU (Continued from Page 1) one thing is certain, and that is that few will ever soar above mediocrity. Aurline Osmond will probably become the president of some ladies' literary club. She may tour the United States and take a few jaunts to Europe like hundreds of others. Now and then she may scribble off a poem or two, attend a lecture, give a book report. Blair Burton with his glasses, his scholarly profundity, his weighty pomposity will probably become a professor of English at some respectable university. Pauline Rogers will perhaps become some half-baked novelist writing, re-writing, rewriting, rewriting.Kent Rounds will become a sober little business man with his ideas all neatly pigeon-holed in his brain. He will be thorough, efficient, implacable in the face of business hazards. Nina Randall will be married within a couple of years and settle down to a bungalow, a rose tree, and a cow. Marge Tanner will probably marry a bank president or an heir, someone who can shower her with money and flattery. She will become a social butterfly flitting from dinner party to dinner party in her own tiny social world like thousands of other society addicts. Ralph Fuller in spite of his glib tongue and his conquesting egotism, will wilt someday and become .iust another printer. What is success anyway? If it is to squat on a pinnacle and laugh at others wallowing at our feet, if it is to be blinded by the glitter of gold, if it is to have our names flashed in neon, blurted from the radio, plastered all over the newspapers in bold, black type, then few will achieve it. Note: Signpost accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of these prophecies. They are the columnist's point-of-view solely. Weber Makes Strong Showing At National Debate Tournament Four Weber college debaters and one extempe speaker did splendid work at the National Phi Rho Pi debating tournament held in Virginia, Minnesota. Blair Burton won second place in the progressive type of debate, and he and Raulston Zun-del tied for fifth place in the university style of debate. Barbara Reeve and Charles Letz won three debates and lost three. Morton Fuller, extempe speaker, went into the finals on extempe! This represents a good showing as some of the best speakers throughout America competed in in the tournament. Shawn Troupe (Continued from Page 1) for the last four years. The eight dancers in addition to Shawn are: Jess Meeker, who has written all the music for the program and is accompanist; Barton Mumaw, Frank Overlees, Wilbur Mc Cormack, Fred Hearn, Frank Delmar, John Schubert, Harry Coble. The program to be given will be divided into three parts: the Past, the Present, and the Future. to bother about right and wrong during a campaign. The only thing to concern yourself about it to get the votes. Watch for the breaks, avoid antagonizing of the small minorities. The time to consider the question of right and wrong is after you have been elected, not before. (10) Remember: Looked at in the right light, politics is not an immoral game it is merely unmoral. rt. r SUPERIOR CLEANING CO. CERTIFIED DRY CLEANING 2470 Grant Ave. Phone 377 ycut Corner By DICK RISSEIX Date: The day I wrote it. Dear Ma : Well it .wont be long now. befor school will quit for me and maby I'll be home in time to help Pa do tjie pjuiiii. plow'en. Its sure been swell of you and Pa to let me go to weber this year, to learn someth'en and I hope you and Pa wont be disappointed when I show you what I got here at Weber. I have learned a lot of big words to use when the kids up there in runt'sville talk to me, I can tell them some'n thay dont know. I like swimcn and tennis and basket ball best here. You know Mr. Lossie gave me my badge the tughesday for life sav'en. I sure am glad I learned to swim in that, big ditch up there in the holler, now I can save the kids up there if they dround. '. i ; . No, my bathing; "suit did'nt take very well,' '" thay go in swimen nearly naked. So I cut the shirt and top off.' Now dont think Im vulger ' will you Ma? I can't see; any reason why they try to learn a gye history and geography when Hitler is changing it every day, and wel all ready no Washington was the father of this here country. Ma, I think. President Dixon is a swell gye. Tughpsday he called me by my fir.sin'ame, so you see I am gett'eri 'up among the big bugs, ... . . I had a swell time t the dance too, only I don't likci these clothes thay call even'en cuts. The front of the coat hangs dowia the back and my vest is too fai; .down to catch the gravy, ilia,, ha). Tell Pa I took a ; cute little blond, to, tho dance-, (we would have enjoyed the side" in the bus if -I'd -had, my: saddle horn and spurs.) Ma she had a long pink dress, but wherr she took off her coat well I'll tell you all; about it whesr, I come back on the farm. Now?. dont get me wrong ma "I'm-still the boy you think I am." . ,-: Well Ma and Pa this is all I can think of today I, wanted to thank you for letting me get a little learn'en and if you run short of cash afor school is out, sell, my littl Bull calf and send the money to me. Tell my little Brother to work hard and maby someday he can come to weber college. P. S. Do thay still role up the sidewalks up when the curfue rings? - Your loving .son ; j You no me Ma '"'Willis" Garner Scribulus Editor For Spring Plans For Variety, Glamour Scribulus editor for;the spring quarter issue. will be Hugh Garner, former, art editor of the publication. Former editor Max McEwan resigned at the close of the winter quarter because of withdrawal from school. Mr. Garner plans to gain art work and writing from a more varied group of students. It is probable also, that at least two of the photographs in the magazine will feature coeds. 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